nanogiants/android-versioning

Error reading current tag

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cmnstmntmn commented

Hei,

I have a question regarding (1) usage of tags on a single master branch vs (2) using multiple branches where tags doesn't have a meaning at all.

I'm in the context of 2, where i have a repo with 3 branches dev, staging and master. So keeping both branch merging + tag releasing it's a bit complex.

The question so far, can getVersionName() fallback to latest branch commit hash name?

git describe --tags --always

G00fY2 commented

Hi Constantin,

thanks for reaching out. The plugin assumes that you are using tags as release indicator, like GitHub recommends for their releases (e.g. the structure of this repo): https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/managing-releases-in-a-repository

I don't think it's very reasonable and a common requirement to use commit hashes for the app version name. Sorry😞

I will clarify this in the Readme. Maybe it's worth for you to take a look on how to develop simple plugins using Gradles buildSrc. You show be able to copy most of this logic and customize the git commands.

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